Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
hemisphere alphabet culture
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
years fellows hostile
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
fall world nostalgia
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
acoustics awareness ancient
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
light speed speed-of-light
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.
photography commit
Nobody can commit photography alone.
views independence rear-view
Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.
technology years age
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
writing exploration absence
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
teacher men conversation
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
country organization village
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
eye noses modern
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
responsibility mold carnegie
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
looks
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.